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Reasonable grounds

Reasonable grounds, means something more than prima facie grounds. It contemplates substantial probable causes for believing that the accused is not guilty of the alleged offence. The reasonable belief contemplated in the provision requires existence of such facts and circumstances as are sufficient in themselves to justify satisfaction that the accused is not guilty of the alleged offence, Collector of Customs v. Ahmadalieva Nodira, (2004) 3 SCC 549 (552). [N.D.P.S. Act, 1985, s. 37(1)(b)]...


Reason to believe

Reason to believe, does not mean a purely subjective satisfaction. The belief must be held in good faith; it cannot be merely a pretence, S. Narayanappa v. CIT, Bangalore, AIR 1967 SC 523: (1967) 65 ITR 219: 1967 1 SCJ 161.Reason to believe, does not mean a purely subjective satisfaction. The believe must be held in good faith. It cannot be merely a pretence, S. Narayanappa v. C.I.T., Bangalore, 1967 ITR 219: AIR 1967 SC 523.Reason to believe, is not synonymous with subjective satisfaction of the officer. The belief must be held in good faith; it cannot merely be a pretence, Partap Singh v. Director of Enforcement, AIR 1985 SC 989: (1985) 3 SCC 72.Means that reasons should exist but the court will not go into the adequacy of such reason, Manchand & Co. v. CIT, West Bengal, AIR 1969 Cal 431.Means coming to the conclusion on the basis of the information that a thing, condition, statement or fact exists. It only means facts which prima facie will convince any reasonable person under the c...


Reasonable and probable cause

Reasonable and probable cause, means genuine belief based on reasonable grounds that the proceedings are justified, ST Sahib v. Hassan Ghani Sahib, AIR 1957 Mad 646.Reasonable and probable cause, such grounds as justify any one in suspecting another of a crime and giving him in custody thereon. Its absence is one of the causes of action in an action for malicious prosecution and its existence is a defence to an action for false imprisonment. After the jury have found the facts, the question whether the facts show a reasonable and probable cause is a question of law, not fact, but the judge may leave that finding to the jury in some cases, McDonald v. Rooke, (1835) 2 Bing (NC) 217. See Addison on Torts; Clerk and Lindsell on Torts. See FALSE IMPRISONMENT; MALICIOUS PROSECUTION.'Reasonable and probable cause' means a genuine belief, based on reasonable grounds, that the proceedings are justified, S.T. Sahib v. N. Hasan Ghani Sahib, AIR 1957 Mad 646.Reasonable and probable cause means an ...


Reasons to believe

Reasons to believe, a belief can be said to be founded on reasonable grounds only if there is something tangible to go by on the basis of which it can be said that the applicant's apprehension that he may be arrested is genuine. But specific events and facts must be disclosed by the applicant in order to enable the court to judge of the reasonableness of his belief, the existence of which is the sine qua non of the exercise of power conferred by the section, Shri Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia v. State of Punjab, AIR 1980 SC 1632: (1980) 2 SCC 565: (1980) 3 SCR 383....


cause

cause 1 : something that brings about an effect or result [the negligent act which was the of the plaintiff's injury] NOTE: The cause of an injury must be proven in both tort and criminal cases. actual cause : cause in fact in this entry but-for cause : cause in fact in this entry cause in fact : a cause without which the result would not have occurred called also actual cause but-for cause concurrent cause : a cause that joins simultaneously with another cause to produce a result called also concurring cause compare intervening cause and superseding cause in this entry di·rect cause : proximate cause in this entry ef·fi·cient in·ter·ven·ing cause : superseding cause in this entry intervening cause 1 : an independent cause that follows another cause in time in producing the result but does not interrupt the chain of causation if foreseeable called also supervening cause compare concurrent cause and superseding cause in this entry 2 : super...


Grounds

Grounds, 'Grounds' within the contemplation of s. 8(1) of the Maintenance of Internal Security Act, 1971 means 'materials' on which the order of detention is primarily based. Apart from con-clusions of facts, 'grounds' have a factual constituent, also. They must contain the pith and substance of primary facts but not subsidiary facts or evidential details. This requirement as to the communication of all essential constituents of the grounds, Vakil Singh v. State of J&K, AIR 1974 SC 2337: (1975) 3 SCC 545.Grounds mean all the basic facts and materials which have been taken into account by the detaining authority in making the order of detention and on which therefore, the order of detention is based, Khudiram Das v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1975 SC 550: (1975) 2 SCC 81: (1975) 2 SCR 832.'Grounds' in Article 22(5) do not mean mere factual inferences but mean factual inferences plus factual material which led to such factual inferences. The 'grounds' must be self-sufficient and self-expl...


Reasonable restriction

Reasonable restriction, the expression 'reasonable restriction' signifies that the limitation imposed on a person in enjoyment of the right should not be arbitrary or of an excessive nature, beyond what is required in the interests of the public. The test of reasonableness, wherever prescribed, should be applied to each individual statute impugned, and no abstract standard, or general pattern of reasonableness can be laid down as applicable in all cases. The restriction which arbitrarily or excessively invades the right cannot be said to contain the quality of reasonableness and unless it strikes a proper balance between the freedom guaranteed in art. 19(1)(g) and the social control permitted by cl. (6) of art. 19, it must be held to be wanting in that quality, Bishamber Dayal Chandra Mohan v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1982 SC 33 (35): (1982) 1 SCC 39: (1982) 1 SCR 1137.The expression 'reasonable restrictions' signifies that the limitation imposed on a person in enjoyment of that rig...


Burial ground

Burial ground, includes a vault or other place where a body is buried, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 10, 4th Edn., Para 1187, p. 548.Burial ground, includes any churchyard, cemetery or other ground, whether consecrated or not, which has been at any time set aside for the purpose of interment, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 10, 4th Edn., Para 1099, p. 817.Burial ground, includes any churchyard, cemetery or other ground, whether consecrated or not, which has been at any time set apart for the purpose of intermet, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 10, 4th Edn., Para 1226, p. 864.The Common Law place of burial is the parish churchyard; but the growth of population and sanitary reasons having made additional burial grounds necessary, these began to be provided by companies specially authorized thereto by local (English) Acts of Parliaments, and in 1847 the Cemeteries Clauses Act (10 & 11 Vict. c. 65), consolidated the provisions usually contained in the local Acts, which thenceforward u...


Arrest

Arrest [fr. restae, Lat.; arrestare, It.; arrester, Fr., to bring one to stand], the restraining of the liberty of a man's person in order to compel obedience to the order of a Court of Justice, or to prevent the commission of a crime, or to ensure that a person charged or suspected of a crime may be forthcoming to answer it. Arrests are either in civil or (see APPREHENSION) criminal cases; civil arrests must be affected, in order to be legal, by virtue of a precept or writ issue out of some Court. The law of civil arrest (see MESNE PROCESS), so far as it still exists, is regulated by the Debtors Act, 1869 (see that title),which abolished imprisonment for debt except in special cases, as where a debtor has the means to pay his debt but refuses to do so, and s. 218 of the Companies Act, 1929, as to the power to arrest an absconding contributory in case of winding up by the Court. see also CONTEMPT OF COURT. The two great statues for securing the liberty of the subject against unlawful a...


ground

ground 1 : the foundation or basis on which knowledge, belief, or conviction rests : a premise, reason, or collection of data upon which something (as a legal action or argument) relies for validity [sued the city on the that the city…had wrongfully released…records "City of Lawton v. Moore, 868 P.2d 690 (1993)"] [listed adultery and alcoholism as the s for divorce] 2 : a piece or parcel of land [the design being to create high for use during overflow periods "Bright v. Perkins, 239 S.W.2d 281 (1951)"] [a sudden disruption of a piece of from one man's land "Porter v. Arkansas Western Gas Co., 482 S.W.2d 598 (1972)"] ground·less adj ground·less·ly adv ground·less·ness n vt : to furnish a ground for : set on a basis [that court ed the disclosure requirement in negligence law "Scott v. Bradford, 606 P.2d 554 (1979)"] [an argument ed on erroneous assumptions] ...


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